Best Live video performance or bootleg?

[dave790]

^^^ Here We Go / Sucker MCs

https://youtube.com/watch?v=As2lyIqeATI

It was a great performance, 2004. RRNN from the same show is also strong.

TT5B was a great live era for the group, perhaps my favourite. The Pageant speaks for itself, but my most watched / listened to shows are probably from the Euro club tour before (Amsterdam, Paris, London). Yauch was so tight.

[YoungRemy]

Co-signing AIFST , followed by their last televised performance featuring Roots on fallon (May 2009), then the Letterman AIFST show from February 2006

I have said before that 2004 through 2007 showed the Beastie Boys at their peak performance wise, from Pageant Tour through the Gala Event Tour. Their creative output was clicking on all cylinders.

Any bootlegs or promos from that era are my favorite.

[dave790]

I fucking love that final televised performance on Fallon.

[dave790]

On the subject of bootlegs / unofficial releases (but not so much the live angle)...

Does anyone own either the B-Boys in the Cut 12" or the Say It 12"?

I am curious about the live version of B-Boys on the former (from the 2009 Orange Peel show) and the 'video version' of Say It on the latter - which I presume is just the album version?

[Eoin MCL]

Originally Posted by dave790

On the subject of bootlegs / unofficial releases (but not so much the live angle)...

Does anyone own either the B-Boys in the Cut 12" or the Say It 12"?

I am curious about the live version of B-Boys on the former (from the 2009 Orange Peel show) and the 'video version' of Say It on the latter - which I presume is just the album version?

I have both. I haven't listened to either for a long time, but I'm pretty sure you are correct regarding Say It. If I get a chance, I'll make a rip of each from my USB turntable and share them somehow! (maybe at the weekend)

[dave790]

That would be great thanks

Presuming B-Boys is properly recorded live (i.e. not an audience recording) which makes me wonder if the whole show was professionally recorded.

[brooklyndust]

Originally Posted by dave790

I fucking love that final televised performance on Fallon.

Agreed, but I was talking more full shows or concerts. I still stick with Glasgow '99 as I think that's when they were at their peak while showing off their diversity (punk, Hip-hop, instrumentals, rock).

Live TV performances could be another thread or discussion.

With late night performances, they never seem to miss and always deliver.
I love all the ones everyone has already mentioned.

- Whatcha Want w/ Cypress Hill on Arsenio in '92
- Whatcha Want on Jimmy Fallon
- Sucker MC's on Hip Hop Honours

Also to add to the list
- Ch-Check It Out on Letterman in '04. This hands down one of the best letterman performances too.
- The New Style on Dave Chappelle Show.
- Body Movin' on The Chris Rock Show
- Sure Shot, Ricky's Theme, Heart Attack Man on SNL in '94.
- Intergalactic / 3 MC's 1 DJ on the MVA's
- Right Right, Now Now / Shazam feat. Dougie E. Fresh on Conan in '04

- Honorable mention goes to Time To Get Ill on Joan Rivers and Live at PJ's on Letterman for them not being singles.

Any bootleggers out there reading this, you should make a proper best of TV performance record with some of those tunes.

*Edit here is a youtube playlist. Feel free to add to it if you can.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ2Z...nw6 bgvM9MEyu

[pesto pizza]

It has to be ROOT DOWN Conan 2006

[Rodie]

Originally Posted by pesto pizza

It has to be ROOT DOWN Conan 2006

YES, was just getting ready to post this!

"Look how much you've grown since you played your last record"

[pesto pizza]

Aaaaahhhhh!

[Adam]

Originally Posted by dave790

^^^ Here We Go / Sucker MCs

https://youtube.com/watch?v=As2lyIqeATI

It was a great performance, 2004. RRNN from the same show is also strong.

TT5B was a great live era for the group, perhaps my favourite. The Pageant speaks for itself, but my most watched / listened to shows are probably from the Euro club tour before (Amsterdam, Paris, London). Yauch was so tight.

Thank you !

[abbott]

Sabotage. 1994 VHS Tape